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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Foreshadowing | The use or a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs late in the work. |
| Freight- Train | Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions. |
| Generalization | When a writer bases a claim upon an isolated example or asserts that a claim is certain rather than probable. Sweeping generalizations occur when a writer asserts that a claim applies to all instances instead of some. |
| Genre | A type of literary work, such as a novel or poem; there are also subgenres, such as science fiction or sonnet, within the larger genres. |
| Hubris | The excessive pride of ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warnings of impending doom, eventually causing his or her downfall. |
| Humor | Anything that causes laughter or amusement; up until the end of the Renaissance, humor meant a person's temperament. |
| Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis (Example: He was so hungry he could have eaten a horse.) |
| Image | A word or words, either figurative or literal, used to describe a sensory experience or an object perceived by the sense. An image is always a concrete representation. |
| Imagery | Words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture. |
| Induction | The process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization. |
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